Judi Dench My Passion for Trees BBC 2017 WEB-DL x264-JIVE

This film follows Judi’s experience through the seasons and her mission to understand the vital role of trees in history and the future. Judi joins some of the best tree scientists and historians to unlock the remarkable secret lives of trees and the stories that they cannot tell.Through the cycle of the four seasons, Judi discovers how trees feel, learns how they communicate and how they fight off invading armies and extreme weather. From Nasa satellite imagery, Judi is shown just how effective trees are as carbon capture machines that are fighting to protect our planet.A fungi expert also shows Judi the incredible action going on beneath her feet, revealing an astonishing underground fungal network that looks up to the tips of tree roots, connecting many trees in a forest together. It’s an incredible system known as the ‘wood wide web’. It is confirmation for Judi that trees aren’t just trees, they are a real community that help each other, humans and the planet.